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The misuse of the First Amendment is graphically illustrated in Time Warner's attempt to insert into the mainstream culture the vile and dangerous lyrics of the Ice-T song entitled "Cop Killer". The Body Count album containing "Cop Killer" was shipped throughout the United States in miniature body bags. Only days before distribution of the ...
Ice-T encountered controversy over his track "Cop Killer", the lyrics of which discussed killing police officers. He asked to be released from his contract with Warner Bros. Records , and his follow-up solo album, Home Invasion , was released through Priority Records .
Ice-T referred to the album's final track, "Cop Killer" as a protest song, stating that the song is "[sung] in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality." [ 22 ] The song was written in 1990, and had been performed live several times, including at Lollapalooza, before it had been recorded in a studio. [ 18 ]
Ice-T made reporters watch a 40-minute civil rights documentary before announcing the "Cop Killer" decision. "I don't understand why I'm supposed to like the police," he said after the documentary ...
Ice, who takes riffs and songs written by his band and rearranges them to his liking before coming up with lyrics, adds, “People don't understand that when you make a record, you might put on 12 ...
The following day, Ice-T revealed that Body Count has signed with Sumerian Records. [26] Ice-T suggested that the album was going to be titled Rise! [26] or Manslaughter. [27] [28] On May 10, 2013, Ice-T announced that work on the fifth studio album had begun and that it would be titled Manslaughter. The album was released on June 10, 2014. [29]
"Law & Order: SVU" star Ice-T talks to TODAY.com about Fin's upcoming episode, "Dutch Tears," his Walk of Fame honor, wife Coco Austin, daughter Chanel and more.
Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D is generally considered the first "gangsta rapper", [10] [11] significantly influencing the more popular early gangsta rap originator, Ice-T. [12] Ice-T was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1958. As a teenager, he moved to Los Angeles where he rose to prominence in the West Coast hip hop scene. An early case of using ...